Board and officers
A native of Oklahoma City, Susan Babcock
received both her bachelor's and master's of music degrees from
the University of Oklahoma and has accompanied the choral society
for more than five years. She also accompanies Norman High School
North choirs and has provided keyboard support for various instrumentalists,
choirs and vocalists at the university and high school levels.
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Beverly McLarry has combined a career of singing
and teaching with that of composing and conducting. With degrees in
vocal performance from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and South
Methodist University, where she was a pupil of Mack Harrell, she has
performed at the Berkshire Music Festival, the Composer's Forum of
the Aspen School of Music, the New Hampshire Music Festival, the
Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, Eine Kleine Chamber Series,
Victoria B.C., and in Oklahoma City with groups such as the Oklahoma
City Chamber Players and the New Lyric Quartet.
Her compositions have been commissioned by St. Luke's United
Methodist Church of Oklahoma City, Temple B'nai Israel of Oklahoma
City, Eine Kleine Summer music of Victoria B.C., Oklahoma
Music Teachers Association, Master Chorale of Oklahoma City, and the
University of Oklahoma- Women in Music Symposium. She is a 2001
winner of the Miriam Gideon Price sponsored by the International
Alliance for Women in Music.
She was awarded "Ambassador of Good Will" by the State of
Oklahoma, Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge Chapter Award,
Oklahoma City Chapter, Citation from the Senate of Oklahoma for
contributions to teaching and composing music in Oklahoma, winner of
"Songs of Oklahoma" contest, sponsored by the Oklahoma
Heritage Association.
She is presently Music Director and
Composer-in-Residence of the First Unitarian Church in Oklahoma City
and the Norman Community Choral Society of Norman Oklahoma since
1998.
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